Review of Phaedra

Phaedra (1962)
4/10
So odd and bad it is good
23 February 2012
This film would get 1 star if it wasn't so odd and didn't have the actors it has---it seemed like a really poor attempt to make an art movie by someone who didn't quite have the IQ to put it all together.

It is in fact an update of a Greek tragedy.

Perkins after many boyish winsome shots replays his psycho performance in the final moments of this...being as creepy as possible.

Does any woman have a deeper voice than Melina Mercouri?...her head was bigger than Perkins.

Even being as bad as it is, it is fascinating; both for the actors and it's oddity and the sheer badness of it's execution.

It gets 4 stars.
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